Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising | The Mozilla Blog
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Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for
  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    5 months ago

    By combining Mozilla’s scale and trusted reputation with Anonym’s cutting-edge technology…

    Ya, that reputation is taking a big hit right now.

  • drspod@lemmy.ml
    28·
    5 months ago

    I’ve been using Firefox since the beginning, before that Mozilla, and before that Netscape Navigator.

    But I think it’s finally time to switch to Librewolf.

    I don’t want digital advertising of any kind, even if my privacy is “preserved” through fancy data-laundering.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        84·
        5 months ago

        They do need to earn some money after all

        If every ad-supported website went dark today, nothing of value would be lost.

        • kevincox@lemmy.ml
          91·
          5 months ago

          I don’t agree. As a single counter example of many YouTube has a huge wealth of information and content.

          Maybe that value isn’t worth the ads, that is much harder to say for certain. But it is clear that there is some valuable information on some sites that are supported by ads.

  • antihumanitarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    5 months ago

    Well this is a tremendous step in the wrong direction. The economic problem is the ad supported model in the first place, no matter how it’s run. This is the same thing Google does, they keep user data to themselves and sell the ad placement. So now Mozilla has the same economic incentives as Google. Unfathomably bad move.

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
    171·
    5 months ago

    Mozilla is going to absolute shit lately. Partnering with a fucking ad network? You’ve got to be kidding me. Firefox is still the better browser, but it’s time to abandon Firefox proper for forks that get rid of Mozilla’s bullshit. I have been using Librewolf for a while and unlike Firefox, it’s not adware.

    • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 months ago

      I just switched to Firefox to get away from Browser who prevent me from using an adblocker extension. sigh

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    10·
    5 months ago

    Data anonymization is a good thing. If websites start using this solution instead of Google ads that’d be quite good. Well better than Google at least. But people seem to be afraid of ads getting added into Firefox. If it happens it will be a ticking bomb because the hunger for data and profit will rise every day.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 months ago

    Let’s just hope that they won’t use it as a justification to put ads in your browser, or go the brave route.

  • Eggyhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    An argument I frequently make about using an ad blocker is that I’d be more comfortable with ads if they weren’t so thirsty for personal information. I still stand by that, and I’m not completely convinced this satisfies that concern. Personal data is still getting slurped up, but now we have the privilege of trusting it’s completely anonymized.

  • sunzu@kbin.run
    5·
    5 months ago

    Timing is a bit sus… While google making chrome straight up ad serving client … Firefox does something shiti?

    Collusion or not, can’t even get the clock is broken twice a day from these “businesses” jfc

    These people never skip a time to fuck the user.